7 Articles
Monday, March 9, 2009
"Ain't Nobody's Business if I Do" Rihanna, Bush, Me and The Culture of Abuse
I was driving back from a weekend visit to my infant twin grand-daughters yesterday when I played a CD of one of my favorite old Bessie Smith standards, "Ain't nobody's business if I do."
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Our own Sarah Palin - Kirsten Gillibrand
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At a time when our nation needs more progressives and fewer right wing hacks, Governor Paterson of New York lays an egg in appointing blue dog Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand to the vacant Senate seat.
What a bold move Gov.
Monday, November 3, 2008
A GODLESS VOTER FOR LIDDY DOLE
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In this ad Ms. Dole or her surrogate pretended that Ms. Hagan gave a shout out "There is no God." Miss Hagan, a former Sunday school teacher and Presbyterian in good standing naturally took umbrage at Ms. Dole's ad.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
An Unpaid Debt of Honor
A few weeks ago my nephew John McNamara asked me to write about the failure of the U.S. Congress as well as the New York City government to help the sick and the dying among the city's first responders to the 9/11 catastrophe.
Our government can spend billions bailing out the crooks and liars who brought about the calamitous recession we are facing, yet has zero money for these brave men and women.
Friday, October 10, 2008
The dangerous McCain/Palin character assassination of Obama
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The last best hope of McCain's campaign is to appeal to the racism that still lives on in this country. This isn't playing hardball, its hate-ball.
The fascist playbook begins by demonizing your opponent as "the other" or "that one" or "the friend of the terrorist." In Hitler's case it was the Jews (read elite, or cosmopolitans), the Gypsies and the Socialists who were demonized and then victimized by this rhetoric...
Saturday, September 27, 2008
McCain; Deregulatin Reality or Campaign by Anecdote
my response to Friday night's debate
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Sister Sarah And The Celebration Of Ignorance
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How Sarah Palin's candidacy exploits the anti-intellectual strain in America.
